From: Tim Merry (timmerry@SHOAL.NET.AU)
Date: Sat Apr 10 1999 - 11:53:29 PDT
Ron, Thanks for your message of 9 Apr 1999: >If my memory serves me correctly LILI MARLENE was a WWI song that >carried on into WWII as it was popular with soldiers from both sides >sung in both english and german. I never realised that it went back as far as WWI! We live and learn. Your having used the words, "...carried on into WWII..." jogged my memory. The 'Carrier' I inherited in Normandy had the name LILI MARLENE painted across the near side (left side). Carriers (which were miniature 3-man open-top 'tanks' you could say) were, in our mob, mainly occupied by veterans from the Desert war of 1941-42, which is why I used the term 'inherited' - the original occupants having been wounded or having moved on to a 'far, far better place', I imagine. Tim